This radio piece is pretty awesome and its pretty interesting to hear someone articulate pretty reasonable ambivalence to someone that me, and most of the folks that I know go kind of gahgah over.
Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West:
19-year-old Laquoia Simmons had a big night a while back: she met and interviewed Professor Cornel West, the famous ‘interpreter of the African-American experience,’ advocate for social justice, philosopher and critic. She reflects on her trip to Sonoma State University, and discusses what it was like to be an ‘at-risk’ young woman meeting a writer who writes so much about the so-called ‘at-risk’ population.